When traveling, many people allow their faces to be scanned at airports. There are plenty of problems with facial recognition technology — but perhaps one of the biggest is that people don’t know they’re allowed to opt-out. Not only is choosing not to get your face scanned at an airport an option, but it seems […]
Local Law Enforcement Collecting Thousands of Iris Scans for FBI, Pentagon
July 17, 2016 by
Details of a new FBI program to collect iris scans reveals how state and local police are assisting the federal law enforcement agency to spread the dragnet of national government surveillance wider and wider. As part of its “pilot program” — which was floated by the FBI as a simple test of technology — the […]
